Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Buy my Shrimp!

Another good Blake story. Awhile back, we were traveling from Montego Bay to Mandeville. On the trip, you travel through an area called "Middle Quarters" which is "shrimp country." It is an area close to some brackish waters in which shrimp are easily harvested. The shrimp are called "peppered shrimp" as it is boiled with Jamaica's well beloved Scotch Bonnet Peppers. A friend of Blake's had asked him to stop and buy him some of the shrimp. Well, this was our first experience buying the shrimp. As soon as we stopped the car, we were swarmed by the ladies selling the shrimp. As you can see, there are at least the arms of 5 different ladies inside the car window pushing "stinky" shrimp in Blake's face. The lady in the middle is hilarious. She keeps replacing the shrimp in Blakes bag and being ultra pushy. We thought it was hilarious.

1 comment:

Blake said...

thanks for posting Kirk :)

next time, we'll be better prepared to handle the chaos!